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Boulekenafed, M., El-Ayadi, Emptoz, R. H., Granado, I., Lebourgeois, F., Marcolino A., Menguchi, A., Muge, F., Nicsa, F., Pina, P., Pinto, J.C., Ramalho, M., Ramos, M., Sirakov, N.M., Trihn, E. 2000. DEBORA - European Project, TITLE: Old printed documents, digitizing, processing and interpreting, Bouche, R., Emptoz, H., Ed., PUBLISHER: ENSSIB - École Nationale des Sciences de l’Information et des Bibliothèques, Lyon, France. 2000.

Sirakov, N. M., 1991.  Mechatronic- Systems for machine vision. By P. Parushev (Ed), Bulgarian Academy of Sciences-Center of Scientific Information, Sofia, Bulgaria. 1991.

IN BOOKS

1. A. Bowden, M. D. Todorov and N. M. Sirakov, 2014, Implementation of the Euler - Lagrange and Poisson Equations to Extract One Connected Region, American Institute of Physics (AIP) 1629, pp.400-407, doi: 10.1063/1.4902301

2. M. Mete, N. M. Sirakov, 2014, Optimal Set of Features for Accurate Skin Cancer Diagnosis, IEEE ICIP 2014, International Conference of Image Processing 2014, Paris, Oct. 28-30, 2014, pp. 2256-2260. #39 out of 3,500 CS conferences, Microsoft Research, ISBN: 978-1-4799-5750-7.

3. Christian F. Hempelmannb, Abdullah N. Arslana, Salvatore Attardoc, Grady Price Blount, Nikolay Metodiev Sirakov, 2014, Assessing the Threat of Firearms: New Threat Formula, Resources, and Ontological Linking Algorithms, Signal Processing, Sensor/Information Fusion and Target Recognition XXIII, In Ivan Kadar Ed., Proc. SPIE, Vol. 9091, 9091OU-1-12,ISBN: 9781628410280.

4. M.Todorov, N.M.Sirakov, S.Suh, 2013, Fast Splitting Scheme to Minimize New Energy Functional Containing Schroedinger Equation Solution, Proc. AMiTANS2013, In M. Todorov Ed., American Institute of Physics, V.1561, 378 (2013), DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4827250 http://scitation.aip.org/content/aip/proceeding/aipcp/1561;jsessionid=2hg7nkug8pr9j.x-aip-live-02; Indexed by Thomson Reuters.

5. Arslan, Abdullah N., Christian F. Hempelmann, Carlo Di Ferrante, Salvatore Attardo, and Nikolay Metodiev Sirakov. 2013. "From Shape to Threat: Exploiting the Convergence Between Visual and Conceptual Organization for Weapon Identification and Threat Assessment." Invited Paper. Recipient of the Lockheed-Martin Best Paper Award. In: Sadjadi, Firooz A. and Abhijit Mahalanobis. Eds. Automatic Target Recognition XXIII. Proc. of SPIE 0277-768X, V. 8744. Bellingham, WA: SPIE. 87440P. pp. 1-15. doi: 10.1117/12.2015591. http://proceedings.spiedigitallibrary.org/proceeding.aspx?articleid=1690743

6. M. Mete , Y. Ou, N. M. Sirakov, 2012, Skin Lesion Feature Vector Space With A Metric To Model Geometric Structures Of Malignancy, R.P. Barneva et al. (Eds.): IWCIA 2012, LNCS 7655, Springer Verlag, pp. 285-297, 2012.

7. Quang Tung Thieu, Marie Luong, Jean-Marie Rocchisani, Nikolay Sirakov, Emanuelle Viennet, 2012, Local and Global Fuzzy Gaussian Distribution Energy Minimization of a Convex Active Contour Model, R.P. Barneva et al. (Eds.): IWCIA 2012, LNCS 7655, Springer Verlag, pp. 285-297, 2012.

8. Abdullah, A., Sirakov, N.M., Attardo, S., 2012, "Weapon Ontology Annotation Using Boundary Describing Sequences", IEEE SSIAI, Santa Fe, New Mexico, April 22-24, 2012, pp.101-104, IEEE Catalog #: CFP12401-USB, ISBN: 978-1-4673-1829-7, Published by IEEE XPlore, Peer reviewed conf. past rate of acceptance 60%.

9. N. M. Sirakov, M. Mete , S. C. Nara, 2011, Automatic Boundary Detection And Symmetry Calculation In Dermoscopy Images of Skin Lesions, IEEE ICIP2011, Brussels, Belgium, Sep. 11-14, 2011, pp.1637-1640, IEEE catalog #: CFP11CIP-USB, ISBN: 978-1-4577-1302-6, IEEE XPlore. Ranked #39 among 3,511 CS conferences. Microsoft Research.

10. Sirakov, N. M., Suh, S., Attardo, S., 2011, "Integration of low level and ontology derived features for automatic weapon recognition and identification" in Automatic Target Recognition XXI, edited by Firooz A. Sadjadi, Abhijit Mahalanobis, Proc. SPIE Vol. 8049 (SPIE, Bellingham, WA 2011) 80490X.

11. Sirakov, N.M., Kojouharov, H, Sirakova, N.N, 2010, Neutrophils and Bacteria Tracking by Active Contours in Video Sequences, IEEE SSIAI 2010, May 23-25, Austin, Texas, Pub. by IEEE Computer Society, pp.5-8, ISBN: 978-1-42447800-2, IEEE Catalog No.:CFP10401-CDR, IEEE XPlore http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/search/srchabstract.jsp?tp=&arnumber=5483933&queryText%3Dsirakov%2C+n%26openedRefinements%3D*%26searchField%3DSearch+All

12. Sirakov N.M. 2010, An Active Vector Field for Boundary Extraction of Objects with Complex Geometry, B. Zagar, A. Kuijper, H. Sahbi Ed, Proc of the 7th Signal Processing, Pattern Recognition and Applications, SPPRA 2010, Austria, Innsbruck, February 17-19, ACTA Press, Anaheim-USA, Calgary-Canada, Zurich-Swiss, pp. 189-195, 2010, ISBN: 978-0-88986-822-9 http://www.actapress.com/Abstract.aspx?paperId=38004

13. N.M.Sirakov, K. Ushkala, 2009, An Integral Active Contour Model for Convex Hull and Boundary Extraction, G. Bebis et al. (Eds.), Lecture Notes in Computer Science 5876, Springer Verlag, ISVC'2009, pp.1031-1040. Impact Factor: 0.4, http://www.springerlink.com/content/850686u087855876/

14. Sang C.Suh, S. I. Saffer, S. G. Anaparthii, N. M. Sirakov, 2009, "Basics of Concepts Representation for Document Summarization", INC, IMS and IDC, 2009 Fifth International Joint Conference on 25-27 Aug. 2009 Page(s):1374 - 1380, IEEE Xplore Digital Library , ISBN: 978-0-7695-3769-6 http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/search/srchabstract.jsp?tp=&arnumber=5331413&queryText%3Dsirakov%2C+n%26openedRefinements%3D*%26searchField%3DSearch+All

15. Milanova, M., Sirakov N.M. 2008, Recognition of Emotional states in Natural Human-Computer Interaction, Proc. of 8th IEEE Symposium on Signal Processing and Information Technology, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Dec. 16-19, 2008, IEEE Computer Society, pp. 186-191, ISBN: 978-1-4244-3555-5, Library of Congress: 2008911171, posted by IEEE Xplore .

16. Sirakov, N.M. 2008, "Shape's Related 3D Objects Indexing and Image Database Organization," IEEE SSIAI 2008, Santa Fe, New Mexico, March 24-26,2008, pp.45-48, Rate of acceptance about 60%, ISBN: 978-1-4244-2297-5, IEEE Catalog #: CFP08401; Library of Congress 2008902178, IEEE Xplore Digital Library.

17. Sirakov, N.M., 2007, Monotonic Vector Forces and Green's Theorem For Automatic Area Calculation, Proc. IEEE ICIP2007, San Antonio, Sep. 2007, Vol. IV, pp 297-300. Rate of acceptance about 45%, IEEE Xplore Digital Library, IEEE Catalog No.: 07CH37925C ISBN:1-4244-1437-7. Ranked #39 among 3,511 CS conferences. Microsoft Research.

18. Sang Suh, Sirakov, N.M., 2007, Content Based Search in Web Archives, WorldComp2007, Internet Computing (ICOMP'07), In H.R. Arabnia, V. Clincy, J. Lu, J. Smid, A. Bahrani,O. Droegenhorn, G. Gravianis, S. Haseloff (Ed), CSREA Press-USA, June 25-28, 2007, Las Vegas, pp. 9-15. ISBN-1-60132-044-2.

19. Sirakov, N.M., 2006, Automatic Concavity's Area Calculation Using Active Contours and Increasing Flow, IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, ICIP2006, Atlanta, October 2006, pp. 225-228. Rate of acceptance about 40%, ISBN: 1-4244-0481-9. IEEE Xplore Digital Library. Ranked #39 among 3,511 CS conferences. Microsoft Research.

20. Sirakov, N.M., 2006, Multiple Surfaces Reconstruction from 2D Sections Using an Increasing 2D Vector Flow, In H.R. Arabnia, Xiangjian He, T. Hintz, D. Liu, K.S.Sim (Ed), CSREA Press-USA, June, 2006, Vol. II, pp.364-370. ISBN: 1-932415-93-9, 1-932415-94-7. ww1.ucmss.com/books/LFS/CSREA2006/IPC4410.pdf

21. Sirakov, N.M., Simonelli, I., 2006, A New Automatic Concavities Extraction Model, Published by IEEE, Computer Society, 2006, USA, 178-182. ISBN: 1-4244-0069-4, Library of Congress #: 2005937121. IEEE Xplore Digital Library http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/freeabs_all.jsp?arnumber=1633746

22. Sirakov, N., 2005, Heat Equation to 3D Image Segmentation, Proc of The 9th World Multi-Conference on SYSTEMICS, CYBERNETICS AND INFORMATICS, In N. Calaos, W Lesso, W-J Tsaur, S. Jivkova, O Goriachkin (Ed), WMSCI 2005 July 10-13, 2005, Orlando, USA, pp.295-299, ISBN: 980-6560-57-4. Ranked in the top 10% of the papers presented on 9th World Multiconference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics (WMSCI 2005).

23. Sirakov, N., 2005, A New Active Convex Hull Model for Image Database's Search Space Partitioning, In H.R. Arabnia, Xiangjing He, Tom Hintz, Qiang Wu (Ed), CSREA Press-USA, June, 2005, pp.134-140. ISBN: 1-932415-65-3 http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/indices/a-tree/s/Sirakov:Nikolay_Metodiev.html

24. Sirakov, N.M., Mlsna, P., 2004. Search Space Partitioning Using Convex Hull and Concavity Features for Fast Medical Image Retrieval, CD Proc of 2004 IEEE International Symposium on BIOMEDICAL IMAGING: From Nano to Macro, April 15-18 2004, Arlington, Virginia, pp. 796-799. ISBN: 0-7803-8388-5, DOI: 10.1109/ISBI.2004.1398658.

25. P. Mlsna, N.M. Sirakov, 2004, Intelligent Shape Features Extraction and Indexing System for Fast Medical Image Retrieval, Proc. SSIAI., IEEE Comp Society, US, pp. 172-176, 2004. ISBN:0-7803-8387-7 , http://iris.usc.edu/Vision-Notes/bibliography/applicat813.html, IEEE Top Reference - IEEE Xplore

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